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A weekly broadcast by members of North-Country families to discuss their jobs and varying points of view
Here is a Cecil Parkin family album, for the famous Lancashire and England bowler, fifteen years or so ago the idol of the Old Trafford crowd, popular on every county ground, and the central figure in several lively cricket controversies, is to bring his family to the microphone to be interviewed by Wilfred Pickles. The seven little Parkins will speak about the careers they hope to adopt, and Mrs. Parkin will have something to say of the tours on which she accompanied her husband.

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Parkin
Interviewed By:
Wilfred Pickles.

1.50 For rural schools
Our changing countryside
5-Trees (i)
John R. Allan >
2.10 Interval music
2.15 For under-sevens
Let's join in with Jean Sutcliffe and Ann Driver
5—The pond in the forest
2.30 Interval music
2.35 Senior English-2
Good writing
5-Dramatic reading (ii) from Shakespeare's ' Merchant of Venice '

Contributors

Unknown:
John R. Allan
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe

from a college chapel
Order of Service
Introit: 0 praise the Lord (Batten) Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm Ix
First Lesson: from Genesis vii
Magnificat (Sydney Watson in E)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew xxiv,
35-39
Nunc Dimittis (Sydney Watson in E) Creed
Lesser Litany (Tomkins)
Lord's Prayer (Robert Stone)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Collects
Anthem: When Jesus Christ was yet a child (Tchaikovsky)
Prayers and Final Responses Blessing

Contributors

Unknown:
Sydney Watson

Symphony No. 2, in D minor played by BBC Orchestra
(Section B.)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julius Harrison
Owing to the fact that Dvorak's first four symphonies remained unpublished, or were published posthumously, great confusion existed with regard to their numeration. The Symphony No. 2 in D minor, really the seventh of Dvorak's symphonies, was composed in 1883-85 for the Royal Philharmonic Society and Dvorak came to London to conduct the first performance in April 1885.
It is a magnificent work, a finer achievement than the better-known Fourth and Fifth ('New World') Symphonies. It shows Dvorak in a serious mood, and in intellectual power it bears an affinity to the symphonies of Brahms.

Contributors

Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Julius Harrison

'The McFlannels Again '
The home life of a Glasgow family re-glimpsed by Helen W. Pryde
First glimpse : ' The McFlanneIs rub along,' followed by a short interlude of popular Scots songs from
Jennie Black and James E. Duff
Second glimpse: The Flitting'
Produced by W. Farquharson Small

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen W. Pryde
Unknown:
Jennie Black
Unknown:
James E. Duff
Produced By:
W. Farquharson Small

A show for the Home Front with Gwen Lewis, Frederick Burtwell, Reginald Purdell, Sylvia Marriott, Joan Gates
Shelter marshal, Jack Melford introducing Tommy Handley
Devised by Francis Worsley and Jenny Nicholson
Written by Reginald Purdell and Frederick Burtwell
Produced by Reginald Purdell
Music by Maurice Winnick and his Band

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwen Lewis
Unknown:
Frederick Burtwell
Unknown:
Reginald Purdell
Unknown:
Sylvia Marriott
Unknown:
Joan Gates
Unknown:
Jack Melford
Unknown:
Tommy Handley
Unknown:
Francis Worsley
Unknown:
Jenny Nicholson
Written By:
Reginald Purdell
Written By:
Frederick Burtwell
Produced By:
Reginald Purdell
Music By:
Maurice Winnick

Translated by Cynthia Pughe from the French of Jean d'Agraives and Roger Francois Didelot
Cast
Breton sailors of the Crillon :
Produced by Peter Creswell
In this play, first broadcast in December 1939, the skipper of a merchant ship, during a discussion on ghosts, begins to tell of an experience of his own. The action flashes back to a certain voyage in 1916, a torpedoed ship, two survivors on a desert island, and the arrival of the phantom ship of the title.

Contributors

Translated By:
Cynthia Pughe
Translated By:
Roger Francois Didelot
Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Le Goff:
Arthur Young
Lambert:
Antony Holles
Jean-Marie Henaff, captain of theCrillon:
Austin Trevor
Catherine, daughter of the French Consul at Trinidad:
Thea Holme
Pirate Jerome Hanbuck, captain of the Desperado:
Cecil Trouncer
Gigord, the ship's carpenter:
Carleton Hobbs
Pegleg, the ship's cook:
Ivor Barnard
Scotty:
James McKechnie
' Red Slash ', mate of the Desperado:
Fred O'Donovan
Strongarm, a pirate:
Bryan Powley
Inez, a captured Spanish woman:
Betty Hardy

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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